A Possible Safe New Way to Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Israeli rearchers say they have developed a substance that attracts and kills mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite. However, the sweet smelling substance is said to be harmless to people and animals.
Scientists at Hebrew University in Jerusalem developed the sugary bait by combining fruit juice oils and boric acid. The fruit juice gets the attention of the mosquitoes. Boric acid kills the incts when they eat it.
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The scientists took the boric acid sweet bait to the West African nation of Mali. They sprayed it on plants near man-made ponds. Villagers u water from the ponds during the dry ason. But the area is also home to Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the most deadly form of malaria.
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The rearchers also placed a sweet-smelling spray on grass near other ponds. But that
spray contained no boric acid.
Both substances also contained a substance that would mark any mosquito that came in contact with it. This way the scientists could count the mosquitoes that fed on the bait.
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Yof Schlein is an expert on incts that affect human health. Professor Schlein led the sweet bait rearch. He says thirty-eight days of results show the sweet boric acid bait proved very effective at killing mosquitoes.在线培训
YOSEF SCHLEIN: “In Mali, we got down by some eighty percent, the females, and ninety percent of the males. But the area is full of little ponds in there, so it is impossible to stop mosquitoes from flying from an untreated pond to a treated pond.”
At the ponds treated only with sweet-smelling bait, Professor Schlein says, more than venty five percent of mosquitoes fed on the fal bait. He says most people do not know that female mosquitoes feed on sweet plant nectars to survive. Their blood feedings are part of reproduction.
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The Israeli rearchers now hope to develop a bait that is even more desirable to the malaria mosquitoes.
Boric acid is generally safe for human beings and other mammals. Professor Schlein says scientists might be able to develop a mosquito bait for enclod spaces. Boric acid has been ud to kill other incts including cockroaches, termites and ants inside homes since the middle of last century.
A report about the malaria mosquito sweet bait was published in Malaria Journal.
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